so-so; passable; now, now; there, there; my, my; oh my!
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
plot of land; lot; soil; locality; region; place
origin; source; basis; base; cause; (raw) material; ingredient
Chōshū; (former) Nagato Province
han (estate of a daimyo in the Edo and early Meiji periods); feudal domain; fief; province
as one would expect from ...; given that ... (naturally ...); precisely because ...; all the more because of ...; on account of ...; ... being what it is
system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series; -type
reformation; revolution; Meiji Restoration; Japan Innovation Party; Nippon Ishin no Kai
imperial loyalist samurai of the Bakumatsu-era; patriots; idealists willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the nation
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed
use; utilization; utilisation; application
bad person; villain; scoundrel; wrongdoer; wicked person
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
sweet-tasting; sweet; fragrant (smelling); sweet (music); lightly salted; light in salt; indulgent
daytime; during the day; time from sunrise until sunset; diurnal period
hand; arm; forepaw; foreleg; handle; hand; worker
to become numb; to go to sleep (e.g. a limb); to get an electric shock; to tingle (from an electric shock); to be excited; to be titillated
to be hit; to strike; to touch; to be in contact; to be equivalent to; to be applicable; to be right on the money (of a prediction, criticism, etc.)
yes; yeah; huh?; what?; 's; of
to be greedy; to devour greedily
to differ (from); to be different; to be wrong; to be incorrect; to become abnormal; to go wrong
imitation; fake; phony; pseudo-
ruined temple; abandoned temple; temple ruins; closing a temple
appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style
separation of Buddhism and Shintoism (government policy during the beginning of the Meiji period)
command; order; dictation; nth year in the Reiwa era (May 1, 2019-)
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
discontinuation (of business); closing down; giving up (one's practice); retiring
such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!
question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion
dojo; hall used for martial arts training; manda (place of Buddhist practice or meditation, esp. the place under the bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment)
impudent; shameless; brazen; forward; audacious; cheeky
to have a limit; to go too far (e.g. of a joke)
to request; to beg; to call; to order; to entrust to; to rely on
a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago
expressly; especially; specially; intentionally; deliberately; on purpose
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
as if (something untrue were actually true); like hell (e.g. "like hell I will")
once again; yet again; (there you go) again
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix